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ANC election manifesto in relation to rural development and land reform
(PLAAS, 2009-06)
In the last 15 years the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) has set out to achieve many things but, by its own admission, has been unsuccessful in meeting its objectives for land reform. Hence a few questions arise. Is land ...
Land reform in Namaqualand: Poverty alleviation, stepping stones and economic units
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2001)
This paper examines the consequences of land reform for communal livestock farmers in Namaqualand. It investigates the likely outcomes of recent commonage acquisitions and tenure reform in the former ëColoured Reservesí ...
'It's all about money! Implementation of South Africaís new fisheries policy
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2001)
This paper was originally written as part of an economics study commissioned by the Chief Directorate: Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) of the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT). Since ...
State, market or the worst of both? Experimenting with market-based land reform In South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2007)
The concept of ‘market-based land reform’ (MBLR, also market-assisted land reform, or market-led agrarian reform) has been central to the ‘new wave’ of land reform that has been in evidence internationally since the early ...
Regulating the institution of traditional leadership
(PLAAS, 2008-10)
This edition of Umhlaba Wethu focuses on communal tenure and specifically on the Communal Land Rights Act (CLRA), which, if implemented, will see the transfer of private title to communal land to ‘traditional communities’; ...
The context of land and resource rights struggles in Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
Africa’s poor are heavily dependent on land and natural resources for livelihood, but some governments continue to resist
transferring full resource management rights to them. This risks the loss or degradation of these ...
Land reform, sustainable rural livelihoods and gender relations: A case study of Gallawater A farm: Volume 2
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2000)
There is an ongoing debate about the
sustainability of South African
communal rangelands as old views
on overgrazing and degradation are being
widely challenged. The degradation issue
has recently received renewed ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Farm tenure
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
Farm dwellers are among the poorest South Africans. Most have access to residential land only. A minority has access to grazing land for their livestock or to arable land for cultivation, in return for which they may be ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Rural restitution
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
During the negotiated transition to democracy, many South Africans expected that liberation would bring the return of land they had been dispossessed of under colonialism and apartheid, but the terms on which the transition ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land redistribution
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
Land dispossession during the colonial era and the decades of apartheid rule produced a highly unequal pattern of land ownership and widespread rural poverty in South Africa. When a democratically elected government came ...